Islamic Laws (Volume One : Ritual Acts of Worship)
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islamic laws A H E S A H S V O : R A W A New Annotated Translation by Mohammed Ali Ismail THE WORLD FEDERATION British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-909285-50-7 Second Edition © Copyright 2015 e World Federation of KSIMC Published by: e World Federation of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities Registered Charity in the UK No. 282303 e World Federation is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations Islamic Centre, Wood Lane, Stanmore, Middlesex, United Kingdom, HA7 4LQ www.world-federation.org Design & Layout by Advent Publishing Services, London All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmied in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior wrien permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations quoted in articles or reviews. C B Foreword . i Translator’s Preface . .ii Transliteration . v 1. Following a Jurist (Taqlīd) . 1 2. Purification (Ṭahārah) . 9 3. Prayer (Ṣalāh) . .183 4. Fasting (Ṣawm) . .378 5. Spiritual Retreat (Iʿtikāf) . .420 6. e One-Fih Tax (Khums) . 434 7. Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil . .457 8. Alms Tax (Zakat) . .463 9. Hajj . 501 Appendix: Table of Weights and Measures . 506 Glossary . .507 Works Consulted . 519 C Foreword . i Translator’s Preface . .ii Transliteration . v 1. Following a Jurist (Taqlīd) . 1 2. Purification (Ṭahārah) . 9 Unmixed (muṭlaq) and mixed (muḍāf) water . .10 1. Kurr water . 10 2. Qalīl water . .12 3. Flowing water . 13 4. Rainwater . .14 5. Well water . 15 Laws relating to the different types of water . 16 Laws relating to emptying the bowels and the bladder . .18 Clearing the male urethra of urine (istibrāʾ) . 21 Recommended (mustaḥabb) and disapproved (makrūh) acts when emptying the bowels and the bladder . 22 Impurities (najāsāt) . .23 1. & 2. Urine and Faeces . .23 3. Semen . .24 4. Corpse . .24 5. Blood . .26 6. & 7. Dog and Pig . .27 8. Disbeliever (kāfir) . 27 9. Wine . .28 10. Sweat of an excrement-eating animal . 29 Ways of establishing impurity (najāsah) . 29 How a pure (ṭāhir) object becomes impure (najis) . 30 Laws of impurities (najāsāt) . .32 ings that purify an impure object (muṭahhirāt) . 35 1. Water . 35 2. Earth . .42 3. e Sun . .44 4. Transformation (istiḥālah) . .45 5. Change (inqilāb) . 46 6. Transfer (intiqāl) . .47 7. Islam . .48 8. Subsequence (tabaʿiyyah) . .48 9. Removal of intrinsic impurity (ʿayn al-najāsah) . .50 10. arantine (istibrāʾ) of an excrement-eating animal . 51 11. Absence of a Muslim . 51 12. Flowing out of blood [of a slaughtered animal] in a normal quantity . .52 Laws of utensils . .52 Ablution (wuḍūʾ) . .54 Immersive ablution (al-wuḍūʾ al-irtimāsī) . .58 Recommended supplication (duʿāʾ) while performingwuḍūʾ .59 Conditions for the validity of wuḍūʾ . .61 Laws of wuḍūʾ . 70 ings for which one must perform wuḍūʾ . .73 ings that invalidate wuḍūʾ . .75 Laws of jabīrah wuḍūʾ . .75 Obligatory (wājib) ritual bathing (ghusl) . 80 Laws of ritual impurity (janābah) . .80 ings that are unlawful (ḥarām) for a junub . .82 ings that are disapproved (makrūh) for a junub . .83 e ghusl for janābah . .84 Sequential ritual bathing (al-ghusl al-tartībī) . 84 Immersive ritual bathing (al-ghusl al-irtimāsī) . .86 Laws of performing ghusl . 87 Irregular blood discharge (istiḥāḍah) . 91 Laws of istiḥāḍah . 91 Menstruation (ḥayḍ) . .100 Laws of a woman in menstruation (ḥāʾiḍ) . .103 Categories of women in menstruation . .108 1. A woman with a habit of time and duration . .109 2. A woman with a habit of time . .115 3. A woman with a habit of duration . .118 4. A woman with a disordered habit (muḍṭaribah) . .119 5. A menarcheal woman (mubtadiʾah) . 120 6. A forgetful woman (nāsiyah) . .121 Miscellaneous rulings on ḥayḍ . 122 Lochia (niās) . .124 e ghusl for touching a corpse (mass al-mayyit) . .128 Laws relating to a dying person (muḥtaḍar) . .130 Laws relating to aer death . .131 e obligation to give ghusl, shroud (takīn), pray over, camphorate (taḥnīṭ), and bury (dafn) . .132 Method of performing the ghusl given to a corpse (mayyit) . 134 Laws of shrouding (takīn) a corpse . .137 Laws of camphorating (taḥnīṭ) a corpse . .140 Laws of the funeral prayer (ṣalāt al-mayyit) . .142 Method of performing ṣalāt al-mayyit . .144 Recommended (mustaḥabb) acts of ṣalāt al-mayyit . 148 Laws of burial (dafn) . .149 Recommended (mustaḥabb) acts of burial (dafn) . 152 e prayer of loneliness (ṣalāt al-waḥshah) . .160 Exhumation of a grave . .160 Recommended (mustaḥabb) ghusls . .162 Dry ablution (tayammum) . .165 1. Not having water . 165 2. Not having access to water . 168 3. Using water is harmful . .169 4. Hardship (ḥaraj) and excessive difficulty (mashaqqah) . 169 5. Needing water to quench thirst . 170 6. Performing wuḍūʾ or ghusl conflicts with another legal responsibility that is more important or just as important . 171 7. Shortage of time . 171 ings with which performing tayammum is valid (ṣaḥīḥ) .172 Method of performing tayammum in place of wuḍūʾ or ghusl . 175 Laws of tayammum . 176 3. Prayer (Ṣalāh) . ..